Manifolding sales-book.



PATENTED JULY 19, 1904 5. M. WILDBY. MANIPOLDING SALES BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED 00122, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

/N VEN 1-09 I M m M/ITWEGG E6 UNITED STATES Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MANIFOLDING SALES-BOOK- SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.765,408, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed October 2, 1901. Serial No. 77,308. (No model.)

To all whom, it na/y concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MILTON l/VILDEY, stationer, a subject of theKing of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at No. 182 Pitt street,Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, haveinvented a new and useful Manifolding Sales-Book, of which the followingis a specitication.

This invention relates to an improved countercheck sales-book fortraders and others,

- which is made by first folding a prepared lon- -gitudinal strip ofpaper sidewise upon itself and then folding the double sheet zigzagwisein order to form the leaves of the book, the stub-strip attached to theseries of leaves being left continuous-that is, without being perforatedor cut at the top and bottom folded ends. The object attained by leavingthe stubs uncut is to insure of the book being made up or bound with allits leaves in proper rotation or order. Also by the stubs being numberedand continuous the dishonest removal of any of the leaves can bedetected.

The invention will now be fully explained, aided by a reference to theaccompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of thelongitudinal strip of paper as out, perforated, and numbered prior toits being folded; and Fig. 2 is a plan showing the paper folded sidewiseupon itself in order to lay the original leaves upon the duplicateleaves prior to being folded into book form, while Fig. 3 isaperspective view of the book after the longitudinal folded strip hasbeen folded zigzag or at rightangles to the longitudinal fold to formthe leaves and showing the first original check disconnected at theinner or stub edge and with the carbonsheet under it.

In Fig. 3 the leaves are opened apart in order to better illustrate theinvention, in place of their lying close together, as they will do inthe book when actually manufactured. Also throughout the figures likeletters are used to denote corresponding parts.

In the drawings the preferred construction of book is shown, the leavesbeing made of a strip of paper which after being printed,

numbered, cut, and perforatedlongitudinally,

as shown in Fig. 1, is first folded sidewise on itself, as shown in Fig.2, in order to have the fore edges of each pair of leaves connectedtogether along a line of perforations at a, and such leaves form theoriginal sheet A and the duplicate or check sheet B, the leafA having astub-strip A, from which it is separated by a straight out at a, and theleaf B having a stubstrip B, with which it is attached along a line ofperforations I). Then the so far folded sheet is severed transversely inpage lengths up to the perforation-line Z) of the stub, when the sheetis folded Zigzag fashion. in order to bring the sheets or leaves aboveone another into book form with the stub-strips continuous at the headand tail, as shown at (f. This book is provided with a carbon ortransfer sheet C, which, as is well understood, is-designed to liebetween the pages A and B, and it is secured upon the outer stub A bystaples D or the like and by means of which the stub part of the leavesare bound or held together in book form. In order to identify the origi'nal and duplicate check-sheets with one another and with their stubs, Imark each with a corresponding figure, letter, or character,substantially in the manner shown in the drawings.

Although I describe and illustrate salescheck books made of adoubledsheet, I would have it understood that books embodying my invention mayalso be made with three or more sheets, and in the latter case it willbe necessary to provide further sheets of carbon or transfer paper tolie over the pages upon which it is'desired to obtain a duplicate of thewritings made on the original, as is well understood.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A manifolding sales-book comprising a sheet of paper having a centrallongitudinal line of perforations, a series of transverse slits stoppingshort of each edge of the sheet of paper so as to form a stub on eachside of the sheet, a series of lines of perforations and a series ofslits alternately connecting the ends of the transverse slits at bothsides of the curing the folded stubs together, substansheet the slits onone side being placed tially as described. IO opposite the lines ofperforations on the other, In witness whereof I have hereunto set mysaid sheet being adapted to be folded on the hand in presence of twoWitnesses.

5 central longitudinal line of perforations, and EDWVARD MILTON WVILDEY.

also zigzag fashion on the lines of the trans- Witnesses: verse slits soas to bring the portions between BEDLINGTON BODYCOMB,

the slits above one another and means for se- V. J. S. THOMPSON.

